Usually means: Comical character in old plays.
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  1. pickle-herring: Merriam-Webster
  2. pickle-herring: Wordnik
  3. pickle-herring: Wiktionary
  4. Pickle-herring: Dictionary.com
  5. Pickle-herring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. pickle-herring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Pickle-herring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. pickle-herring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. pickle-herring: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Pickle-herring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pickle-herring: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (pickle-herring)

noun:  (obsolete) A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
noun:  (obsolete) A Merry Andrew; a buffoon.

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